Hi guys
I've been trying to compile the Audacity 1.2.4b source code on Windows =
XP Professional (5.1.2600 Build 2600)using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET =
2003 (Dev Env 2003 v 7.1.3088, Framework 1.1 v 1.1.4322) and I keep =
getting a message saying that "The project file =
'...\LIB-SRC\SOUNDTOUCH\WIN\soundtouch.dsp' has been corrupted and =
cannot be opened" whenever I try to open the project files (just after =
Studio .NET takes me through a process of converting files for the =
"current Visual C++ project format"). I've tried downloading three =
different versions of the 'audacity-src-1.2.4b.tar.gz' file from various =
mirror sites, but keep getting the same error. I've also downloaded and =
successfully built wxWidgets and have been following the instructions in =
..\win\compile.txt
Can you help?
Many thanks
Adam

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<font size=3>Thank you Richard<br><br>
You have provided me with much useful information which may well enable
me to resolve the issues.<br><br>
With respect to the help page, I perceived &quot;Poor Quality and
Skipping during Recording&quot; as not dealing with my problem of
duplication (quality otherwise was fine and there was no skipping).&nbsp;
Perhaps the section title might be modified, or a descriptive paragraph
might be added, to indicate a wider range of issues covered by the
section.<br><br>
Thanks again for a great product,&nbsp; Peter<br><br>
<br><br>
At 12:39 AM 1/05/2006, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:28
+1000, Peter Hoban wrote:<br>
&gt; Thanks for your response.&nbsp; I am not familiar with the
internal<br>
&gt; workings of a sound card or its drivers however I do make the<br>
&gt; following observations:<br>
&gt; 1. The 'sound card' is integrated (on board) in a major brand<br>
&gt; (Toshiba) product.<br>
Unfortunately that doesn't make it any more likely to work - a great<br>
many laptop integrated sound chips ship with completely useless
windows<br>
generic drivers and are unable to record at all until they are
upgraded<br>
to the manufacturer's drivers.<br><br>
&gt; 2. The problem does not arise if I use CoolEdit 96 to make the<br>
&gt; recording.<br>
Way back!. Cool Edit records in 16 bit only, where as audacity
defaults<br>
to 32bit recording, thus doubling the load on the disk and
processor.<br>
You can change this down to 16 bit (as is suggested) in the audacity<br>
preferences.<br><br>
&gt; 3. The computer has an Intel Pentium4 processor running at 1.6GHz
and<br>
&gt; is running nothing else except WinXP Home (+SP2) and the
drivers<br>
&gt; necessary for operation of the hardware.&nbsp; There is 500MB RAM
and about<br>
&gt; 30GB of free disk space.&nbsp; I would be surprised if this
combination was<br>
&gt; unable to keep up.&nbsp; Does Audacity require more than this?<br>
No, that should be an ample specification to run audacity provided
there<br>
are no hardware conflicts or other problems slowing the machine
down,<br>
and DMA is working correctly on the hard drive. This last point can
have<br>
a dramatic effect on the performance of audacity as it does a great
deal<br>
of disk I/O when recording.<br><br>
&gt; 4. A failure to keep up would be expected to result in lost data
not<br>
&gt; in duplications.<br>
This depends entirely on how the code handles the situation. If it has
a<br>
ring buffer of sound to deal with and the output catches up with the<br>
input and passes it, then unless action is taken it will simply read
the<br>
old data out again and remain one &quot;lap&quot; behind. In other
words,<br>
duplication is the default unless something is done about it. I have<br>
personally experienced such behaviour in a machine where the
(broken)<br>
driver was not sharing interupts correctly and so was not receiving
data<br>
fast enough (AMD 1800XP, Hercules Game Theatre, Highpoint RAID<br>
controller). The data that did arrive was simply looped and played
until<br>
the next chunk made it.<br><br>
&gt; I am advising you because it appears to me that there is a conflict
of<br>
&gt; some sort.&nbsp; <br>
I agree. However it is much more likely to be a hardware / driver<br>
related problem than something in the audacity code. No other user
has<br>
reported a problem like this that did not go away when updated
drivers<br>
where installed and the system tuned as described.<br><br>
&gt; I do not expect you to support a free product, but I do expect
that<br>
&gt; you may be interested to know about difficulties that an
experienced<br>
&gt; user has had.<br>
We are interested to help you solve the problems, which is why (based
on<br>
some hundreds of previous enquiries) the list of suggestions I sent
you<br>
was produced, all of which have been shown to work in some
cases.<br><br>
&gt; It appears from your response that the problem is not a common
one.<br>
&gt; That suggests it is a function of my combination of hardware
and<br>
&gt; software.&nbsp; Since it does not appear to occur when I use
CoolEdit<br>
&gt; suggests that Audacity is contributing something to the
problem.<br>
As I said above, there are many differences between recording in
Cool<br>
Edit and audacity, not least the bit depth referred to, but also the<br>
pattern of disk I/O (Cool edit was optimised for slow computers so<br>
writes continually to a single large file rather than many small
files<br>
used by audacity to speed up editing).<br><br>
Richard Ash<br><br>
<br>
&gt; At 05:36 AM 30/04/2006, you wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 07:18 +1000, Peter Hoban wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; I see I did not finish my message of last night.<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; I think Audacity is a great product and I understand that
the<br>
&gt; &gt; problems<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; I am having would not be noticeable to most users.<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; Never-the-less if there is a solution to this I would love
to<br>
&gt; &gt; know,<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; and if I can contribute in some way to make a great
product even<br>
&gt; &gt; &gt; better then that will be a good thing.<br>
&gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; I'm not sure where you are coming from. In my last reply (22
March)<br>
&gt; &gt; I<br>
&gt; &gt; pointed you at a list of possible solutions to recording
glitches<br>
&gt; &gt; (buffer duplications), which come from slow response times in
your<br>
&gt; &gt; OS<br>
&gt; &gt; and hardware, not from problems in audacity itself.<br>
&gt; &gt;
<a href="http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#recording"; eudora="autourl">
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#recording</a&gt;
<br>
&gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; If this is definitely not the case, then I would suspect a
sound<br>
&gt; &gt; card<br>
&gt; &gt; driver bug or issue (and there are a very wide range of
these,<br>
&gt; &gt; including<br>
&gt; &gt; problems with record clock speed, which could result in
duplications<br>
&gt; &gt; to<br>
&gt; &gt; try and keep up).<br>
&gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; Is this the problem you are referring to ?<br>
&gt; &gt; <br>
&gt; &gt; Richard Ash<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; ______________________________________<br>
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| From Hazenmail@...
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:39:44 EDT
| I am using the Audacity program with excellent results. Congratulations on
| a wonderful product!
Thanks!
| May I inquire as to approximately when (you don't have to give away any trade
| secrets) your beta of version 1.3 will be available? It appears to have
| some wonderful features!
The Beta 1.3.0 is available now. Latest Beta and stable versions are
always here
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
1.3.1 will be issued fairly soon and experience with the Betas should lead to
a stable 1.4 in about a year or so.
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| From David Harrison <ke4ool@...>=20
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:30:47 -0400
| =A0I forgot to tell you my system Mac OS 10.4.6 -=A0 1 gig of ram
| David Harrison
Thanks for writing in with the extra information.
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| From David Harrison <ke4ool@...>=20
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:27:56 -0400
| Hello I am trying to use Audacity for general voice recording but=A0
| every-time i record my mac stops playing system sounds like=20
| when you put=A0something in the trash and delete it, this happens
| with the stable version and the beta is there a way to stop this,
| it seems the only way to get the sounds to work again is to reboot.=
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any sound or crash.=20
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are
can be used in a number of different quality settings depending on what is =
being=20
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ice
settings when it is started. Unfortunately many other OS X programs do not =
check
what settings are currently applied when they are started, and assume defau=
lt
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http://audacity.sourceforge.net/files/audacity-macosx-1.2.5pre1.dmg
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| > From Richard Ash
| >> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 21:37 -0700, James W Anderson wrote:
| >> The second question I have is can I use loops in
| >> Audacity? What would one do to create a track using
| >> loops. Typically it would be .wav or mp3 loops from
| >> disc or downloaded off the net. Want to create some
| >> stuff to take to a studio to add live
| >> vocal/instrumental tracks to and finish off
| >> mixing/mastering using Sonar. I'm getting involved in
| >> producing house music and would like to use Audacity
| > >to at least get some basics done ahead of other
| >> production.
|
| >You can import audio tracks in standard formats like WAV or MP3 into
| >audacity, and use the "Repeat" effect from the Effects menu to loop
| >them on a track in audacity.
You can also (as is perhaps more usual) just create or import a single
loop in Audacity and export it as WAV or AIFF, then use the loop feature
in your player to play it over and over (in Audacity you can hear what
it would sound like by pressing shift with the play button).
If you do import an .MP3 loop into Audacity (or export any track from
Audacity as an MP3 where it's intended to be loop played ) be aware that
MP3s typically have a small amount of silence at the end of the track
which is not ideally what you want for a loop.
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Greetings!
I am using the Audacity program with excellent results. Congratulations on a
wonderful product!
May I inquire as to approximately when (you don't have to give away any
trade secrets) your beta of version 1.3 will be available? It appears to have
some wonderful features!
Best wishes,
Bill Hazen

> From Richard Ash
>> On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 21:37 -0700, James W Anderson wrote:
>> The second question I have is can I use loops in
>> Audacity? What would one do to create a track using
>> loops. Typically it would be .wav or mp3 loops from
>> disc or downloaded off the net. Want to create some
>> stuff to take to a studio to add live
>> vocal/instrumental tracks to and finish off
>> mixing/mastering using Sonar. I'm getting involved in
>> producing house music and would like to use Audacity
> >to at least get some basics done ahead of other
>> production.
>You can import audio tracks in standard formats like WAV or MP3 into
>audacity, and use the "Repeat" effect from the Effects menu to loop >them
on a track in audacity.
You can also (as is perhaps more usual) just create or import a single
loop in Audacity and export it as WAV or AIFF, then use the loop feature
in your player to play it over and over (in Audacity you can hear what
it would sound like by pressing shift with the play button).
If you do import an .MP3 loop into Audacity (or export any track from
Audacity as an MP3 where it's intended to be loop played ) be aware that
MP3s
typically have a small amount of silence at the end of the track
which is not ideally what you want for a loop.
Gale Andrews
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| From "Gregory Viscardi" <gviscardi@...>
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:08:00 -0400
| I was wondering if anyone could tell me the file naming scheme/structure
| for the temp files, for like say when the computer crashes and you need to
| recover the temp data, they are split into 6 second chunks, with names like
| e00002c9.au etc. I would like to write a script to put them back together,
| but I cannot figure out how the naming scheme works to put them back in
| the correct order.
Any script will look for consecutively numbered files based on the last digits
before the extension ; .au files which are left and right channels from a stereo
tracks have alternate numbers e.g. xxxxx1.au, xxxxx3.au for left, xxxxx2.au,
xxxxx4.au for right.
A couple of scripts have already been written which are recommended
for crash recovery (though they do not necessarily work infallibly). They both
avoid the common problem when joining .au files with simple file joining tools
of there being an audible bump where the files are joined.
You can read about and try the crash recovery tools here
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=CrashRecovery
If you do create a successful script please feel free to let us know
about it on that page, which is user-editable.
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| From Richard Ash <richard@...>
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:46:36 +0100
| On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 14:14 -0700, Reynolds Cameron wrote:
| > Hi. I have re-installed Audacity 1.2.4 2 times and still get the same
| > problem of it crashing before it even opens in Win XP (SP2). I access
| > my workstation via RDP from an HP t5500 thin client The workstation
| > is an Intel P4 ( 1.8GHz), 2.0GB SDRAM 2700 and dual-boots Mandrake
| > Linux Win XP with a generic PCI sound card and an ATI AIW 8500 128MB
| > video card.
| >
| > Audacity for Linux works fine, but not on Windows. I am not able to
| > boot into Linux from the Remote Desktop Protocol, so I use Windows XP
| > as default OS. HOw do I get Audacity for Windows to work? Audacity
| > is the only program that doesn't work.
|
| If you start audacity locally on the workstation it will run fine
| because you have direct access to the physical sound card (and all the
| other system resources that don't work on RDP connections, like
| accelerated video overlays and shared memory graphics).
Just to clarify, with the protocol /client this user has, if you did start
Audacity locally on the workstation under Windows, then accessed it
from the client, and assumng away bandwidth problems, would it be
functional in any sense at all e.g. could it successfully import, edit and
export an audio file (without playing it back)? Is there any existing or
possible future version or configuration of Windows RDP where it would
be possible to launch Audacity remotely and access the soundcard e.g.
the 5.1 RDP you mentioned with a corresponding client?
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Hello I am trying to use Audacity for general voice recording but
every-time i record my mac stops playing system sounds like when you
put something in the trash and delete it, this happens with the
stable version and the beta is there a way to stop this, it seems the
only way to get the sounds to work again is to reboot.
Thanks for your time
David Harrison
ke4ool@...

Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me the file naming scheme/structure fo=
r
the temp files, for like say when the computer crashes and you need to
recover the temp data, they are split into 6 second chunks, with names like
e00002c9.au etc. I would like to write a script to put them back together,
but I cannot figure out how the naming scheme works to put them back in the
correct order.
Thanks for your time.
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:|: gviscardi@...

| From Richard Ash <richard@...>
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:09:20 +0100
| On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 06:29 -0500, Joe Blanton wrote:
| > Gale, thank you for your reply. I tried the information at the link
| > you gave, but was not able to get the screen to add the name of the
| > song, group, etc. I must be doing something wrong. Let me explain
| > further what I was doing with the pre 1.2.4 version that was so
| > simple.
| > 1. I would record an entire 33 1/3 LP into one file. This
| > file would consist of 10-12 songs approximately 3 minutes in length.
| > 2. I would export that as an MP3 file and include the LP
| > title, group, genre, year, etc
| > 3. I would then open the file, select a song and export the
| > selection as MP3.
| Thats an uncessarily slow and low-quality way of doing the process
| because you are encoding to MP3 (which is a lossy degrading process) and
| imediately decoding back to an uncompressed file when you open it in
| audacity again.
|
| > When I would do that, the box would again appear with the previous
| > information I had entered about the file. I would then change the
| > name of the song, and add the cut number. I would not have to change
| > the LP name, the genre or the year.
| > 4. Then I would save just the song and when I played it back,
| > the information about that song would appear.
| > 5. To me that was very simple and straight forward. Now with
| > 1.2.4, I do not get the option to change the name of the song and each
| > of the 10-12 songs have the same information as the entire recording.
| > No box appears when I'm saving each selection.
| No, you have to bring it up manually by clicking on Project > Edit ID3
| tags. The values you enter will then be used each time you export to
| MP3, so all you have to do is fill in the complete set of disc details
| and the first song title, select the first song, export to MP3, then do
| Project > Edit ID3 tags to edit in the next title, select the next song
| and export, and so on.
|
| Even easier is to follow the instructions on using the Export multiple
| function.Insert labels in the project to define where each song starts,
| making each label text correspond to the title of the song.
| You can then do File > Export Multiple, and select the option to split
| based on Labels, with the export format as MP3. Press "Export" and you
| will then get a dialogue box to enter the LP name, genere, year etc, but
| not the title (which is shown as (automatic) because it will come from
| the label).
As I have now had time to test 1.2.0 and 1.2.3, it does seem true that
in those versions if you use the manual method of selecting areas one by
one and exporting each with File > Export selection as MP3, you do get the
MP3 ID3 tag dialog with each export, so this behaviour has changed in 1.2.4.
It remains true that in 1.2.4 you can edit the ID3 tags for each export with
Project > Edit ID3 tags as long as you do it before File > Export as ;
and that you can use export multiple with a label track, and then the
title and track number are automatically determined by the label and
the sequence of the markers and the ID3 dialog correctly only appears
once.
I am not quite sure though why the ID3 dialog now does not appear in 1.2.4
with each manual select area and "export selection as..." - on balance
anybody using this method would be more likely to want to change the title
of the track than not, wouldn't they?
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| From Richard Ash <richard@...>
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:50:45 +0100
| On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 19:38 +0000, louislazatin@... wrote:
| > CDG is a a CD with Graphics. These are used for Karaoke singing.
| > Background music is recorded on the CD and plus the song lyrics that
| > can be viewed on a TV/monitor. I tried copying them but the lyrics
| > are not recorded. Can Audacity copy both the music background as well
| > as the song lyrics?
|
| No. Audacity can neither read nor write the conventional audio data on
| audio CDs, let alone the sub-channel formats used for CDG.
| You need a supporting CD extraction tool and CD writing tool to either
| preserve the subcode data channels, or read them to a separate file and
| write them back to the new disk. You should be able to find further
| information via a google search.
Depending on what you want to do, there is a collection of links on this
page (if you have not already seen it)
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/cdgfaq.htm
to tools to extract the CD+G data, burn it to a new CD+G disc, copy a
CD + G disc, or play such a disc on your computer with the lyrics
displayed. You do of course need a compatible drive that can read/write
CD + G and there is a list of those on that page also.
If none of this works, you can still extract the audio from the CD+ G
disc to MP3 with normal CD extraction software, and use MP3 Karaoke
software freely available on the net to search for, download and display
the lyrics to the songs. Another possibility might be to hook a CD + G
player to your computer monitor, capture the lyrics as an image and
use the MP3 Karaoke software to display the image when playing the
track.
Gale Andrews
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| Richard Ash
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Just learning about recording in order to attempt to record steel band. =
Have Samson studio condenser mike connected to "mike in" of Samson MDR =
624 six channel mixer. Mixer detects input. Output from "mix output" =
of mixer is connected to Line 6 GuitarPort which converts signal to USB. =
The guitar port is connected to a USB port of the computer which is =
running Audacity 1.2.4b. Guitar port software detects input signal. =
Audacity does not. Please advise. Thank you.

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:28 +1000, Peter Hoban wrote:
> Thanks for your response. I am not familiar with the internal
> workings of a sound card or its drivers however I do make the
> following observations:
> 1. The 'sound card' is integrated (on board) in a major brand
> (Toshiba) product.
Unfortunately that doesn't make it any more likely to work - a great
many laptop integrated sound chips ship with completely useless windows
generic drivers and are unable to record at all until they are upgraded
to the manufacturer's drivers.
> 2. The problem does not arise if I use CoolEdit 96 to make the
> recording.
Way back!. Cool Edit records in 16 bit only, where as audacity defaults
to 32bit recording, thus doubling the load on the disk and processor.
You can change this down to 16 bit (as is suggested) in the audacity
preferences.
> 3. The computer has an Intel Pentium4 processor running at 1.6GHz and
> is running nothing else except WinXP Home (+SP2) and the drivers
> necessary for operation of the hardware. There is 500MB RAM and about
> 30GB of free disk space. I would be surprised if this combination was
> unable to keep up. Does Audacity require more than this?
No, that should be an ample specification to run audacity provided there
are no hardware conflicts or other problems slowing the machine down,
and DMA is working correctly on the hard drive. This last point can have
a dramatic effect on the performance of audacity as it does a great deal
of disk I/O when recording.
> 4. A failure to keep up would be expected to result in lost data not
> in duplications.
This depends entirely on how the code handles the situation. If it has a
ring buffer of sound to deal with and the output catches up with the
input and passes it, then unless action is taken it will simply read the
old data out again and remain one "lap" behind. In other words,
duplication is the default unless something is done about it. I have
personally experienced such behaviour in a machine where the (broken)
driver was not sharing interupts correctly and so was not receiving data
fast enough (AMD 1800XP, Hercules Game Theatre, Highpoint RAID
controller). The data that did arrive was simply looped and played until
the next chunk made it.
> I am advising you because it appears to me that there is a conflict of
> some sort.
I agree. However it is much more likely to be a hardware / driver
related problem than something in the audacity code. No other user has
reported a problem like this that did not go away when updated drivers
where installed and the system tuned as described.
> I do not expect you to support a free product, but I do expect that
> you may be interested to know about difficulties that an experienced
> user has had.
We are interested to help you solve the problems, which is why (based on
some hundreds of previous enquiries) the list of suggestions I sent you
was produced, all of which have been shown to work in some cases.
> It appears from your response that the problem is not a common one.
> That suggests it is a function of my combination of hardware and
> software. Since it does not appear to occur when I use CoolEdit
> suggests that Audacity is contributing something to the problem.
As I said above, there are many differences between recording in Cool
Edit and audacity, not least the bit depth referred to, but also the
pattern of disk I/O (Cool edit was optimised for slow computers so
writes continually to a single large file rather than many small files
used by audacity to speed up editing).
Richard Ash
> At 05:36 AM 30/04/2006, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 07:18 +1000, Peter Hoban wrote:
> > > I see I did not finish my message of last night.
> > >
> > > I think Audacity is a great product and I understand that the
> > problems
> > > I am having would not be noticeable to most users.
> > >
> > > Never-the-less if there is a solution to this I would love to
> > know,
> > > and if I can contribute in some way to make a great product even
> > > better then that will be a good thing.
> >
> > I'm not sure where you are coming from. In my last reply (22 March)
> > I
> > pointed you at a list of possible solutions to recording glitches
> > (buffer duplications), which come from slow response times in your
> > OS
> > and hardware, not from problems in audacity itself.
> > http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~raa110/audacity/AudacityHelp.html#recording
> >
> > If this is definitely not the case, then I would suspect a sound
> > card
> > driver bug or issue (and there are a very wide range of these,
> > including
> > problems with record clock speed, which could result in duplications
> > to
> > try and keep up).
> >
> > Is this the problem you are referring to ?
> >
> > Richard Ash
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On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 21:37 -0700, James W Anderson wrote:
> I have v 1.2.3 and need to upgrade to 1.2.4. However,
> I don't get more than the first 12KB of the file.
Don't try and right click on the file or "Save Target As", just click
the link. Similarly, don't try and use a download manager / accelerator.
Otherwise you get the output of a script page, not the correct download
you wanted. (A new page will load saying "your have selected blah
blah ... your download should start shortly", after which a download
dialogue will pop up as the page redirects to the actual download
location).
> The second question I have is can I use loops in
> Audacity? What would one do to create a track using
> loops. Typically it would be .wav or mp3 loops from
> disc or downloaded off the net. Want to create some
> stuff to take to a studio to add live
> vocal/instrumental tracks to and finish off
> mixing/mastering using Sonar. I'm getting involved in
> producing house music and would like to use Audacity
> to at least get some basics done ahead of other
> production.
You can import audio tracks in standard formats like WAV or MP3 into
audacity, and use the "Repeat" effect from the Effects menu to loop them
on a track in audacity.
Richard Ash

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 06:29 -0500, Joe Blanton wrote:
> Gale, thank you for your reply. I tried the information at the link
> you gave, but was not able to get the screen to add the name of the
> song, group, etc. I must be doing something wrong. Let me explain
> further what I was doing with the pre 1.2.4 version that was so
> simple.
> 1. I would record an entire 33 1/3 LP into one file. This
> file would consist of 10-12 songs approximately 3 minutes in length.
> 2. I would export that as an MP3 file and include the LP
> title, group, genre, year, etc
> 3. I would then open the file, select a song and export the
> selection as MP3.
Thats an uncessarily slow and low-quality way of doing the process
because you are encoding to MP3 (which is a lossy degrading process) and
imediately decoding back to an uncompressed file when you open it in
audacity again.
> When I would do that, the box would again appear with the previous
> information I had entered about the file. I would then change the
> name of the song, and add the cut number. I would not have to change
> the LP name, the genre or the year.
> 4. Then I would save just the song and when I played it back,
> the information about that song would appear.
> 5. To me that was very simple and straight forward. Now with
> 1.2.4, I do not get the option to change the name of the song and each
> of the 10-12 songs have the same information as the entire recording.
> No box appears when I'm saving each selection.
No, you have to bring it up manually by clicking on Project > Edit ID3
tags. The values you enter will then be used each time you export to
MP3, so all you have to do is fill in the complete set of disc details
and the first song title, select the first song, export to MP3, then do
Project > Edit ID3 tags to edit in the next title, select the next song
and export, and so on.
Even easier is to follow the instructions on using the Export multiple
function.Insert labels in the project to define where each song starts,
making each label text correspond to the title of the song.
You can then do File > Export Multiple, and select the option to split
based on Labels, with the export format as MP3. Press "Export" and you
will then get a dialogue box to enter the LP name, genere, year etc, but
not the title (which is shown as (automatic) because it will come from
the label).
Then hit the OK button an all the songs will be exported to the
destination folder you specified.
> 7.. Please let me know how I can get a pre 1.2.4 version that
> gives me the option I've described.
There is a link on the download page:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
(4th bullet point down). Note there is no support for problems with
obsolete versions of audacity.
Richard Ash
> At 06:38 PM 4/26/2006, you wrote:
> > |>>> >From Joe Blanton <JoeBlanton@...>
> > | Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:40:55 -0500
> > | Where can I get a pre 1.2.4 version of Audacity, or maybe you
> > can tell mehow
> > | to work around a problem I'm having with 1.2.4. I have
> > beentransferring my
> > | 33 1/3 LP collection to CD. I record the entireside of the LP
> > and then would
> > | select each song and save to disk. Iwas using a version of
> > Audacity that would
> > | allow me to create the songtitle, artist, genre, cut number
> > and year. I
> > | downloaded version1.2.4 and seem to have lost that capability.
> > I get that
> > | option whenI save the entire group of songs, but not when I
> > select the 2-3
> > | minute song.
> >
> > I am assuming you trying to export the separate songs to MP3 when
> > you speak
> > of choosing genre, cut number etc. When you are selecting just the
> > one 2 or 3
> > minute song, I wonder if you are splitting the track into songs by
> > clicking in the
> > track and adding a marker at that point in a label track then using
> > File >
> > Export Multiple as described here:
> >
> > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split
> >
> > This is a convenient method to split files for CD burning but
> > 1) when clicking File > Export multiple you have to click on Export
> > Format
> > in the following dialog to select MP3
> > 2) when you click Export, the MP3 data you choose in the following
> > dialog applies to all the songs (it cannot be set for each) , and
> > the
> > MP3 Title is set automatically already according to the label or
> > track titles.
> >
> > Is this what you mean, or are you not using a label track but
> > selecting each
> > song in turn and then clicking File > Export selection as MP3? If
> > you are
> > doing this but the MP3 dialog is not popping up when you export the
> > selection,
> > you can set the MP3 tag data *before* exporting the MP3 by clicking
> > Project >
> > Edit ID3 tags. The MP3 data you enter there will then be used for
> > each export
> > until you change it, i.e. for the next song you export, if you want
> > a diferent
> > title or genre, you again enter the tag details you want before
> > exporting the
> > song.
> >
> > Note if you clear all the text in the Edit ID3 tags dialog and press
> > OK, it should
> > then again pop up each time you export an MP3.
> >
> > If this does not cure the problem please write back and tell us your
> > operating
> > system and exactly how you are splitting the file up , and what File
> > > Export
> > command you are using that does not bring up the Edit ID3 tags
> > dialog.
> >
> >
> > Gale Andrews
> >
>
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> Joyce was a wonderful wife, mother
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| From "Bernie Smith" <leonbernard@...>
| Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:51:32 +0100
| Hello Team.I have made a copy of my voice and saved it.Please tell me
| how to make a copy to CD.
Please see this Frequently Asked Question:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=burn-cd
If the track you want to burn to CD contains sections which
you'd like to burn as individual CD tracks, you can place markers
where you want to divide the track and then use the "export multiple"
command to export multiple files with different file names - see
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=files&i=split
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| From LTischler@... (Lorenz Tischler)
| 30 Apr 2006 13:19 GMT
| I have problems with the installation of iTTUSB turntable. In software
| configuration version 1.6: page 5 is mentioned under 1. that microphone
| should be clicked on and stereo mix is to be selected. Unfortunately there
| is no possibility to click on anything in this field as it is empty.
| Whatever I do, there is no sound at all with this configuration.
This was a misconception by Ion in previous issues of their guide to
installing Audacity, which they only fairly recently corrected. The correct
installation guide is here
http://www.ion-audio.com/manuals/iTTUSB_Software.pdf
What you have to do is go to Audacity preferences > Audio I/O tab and
select the Ion as recording device and your soundcard as the playback
device and press OK. The mixer dropdown is then greyed out while
the Ion remains selected as recording device ; this is normal.
Additionally, if you are on OS X, you need to set the Ion as the default
recording device in Apple Sound and Midi Controller.
This should solve the problem, but if you are on a Windows OS I would check,
anyway, that your mixer toolbar dropdown is properly operational when your
onboard soundcard is selected as recording device in Audacity's Audio I/O tab,
as some soundcards that ship with Windows only have generic Microsoft drivers
and can cause the mixer toolbar dropdown to be greyed or not to display all the
available recording options. If this is the case, you need to update your
soundcard drivers to the latest ones from the card or motherboard manufacturer,
not Microsoft drivers.
Gale Andrews
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